Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "The Political Depravity of Unjust Pardons" video.

  1.  @Account.for.Comment  Well, that would have to come from grass roots. Eg. the voters. If they wanted to work together and live next to each other, this wouldn't have happend, why? The other side wouldn't feel the need to create loopholes, or use undemocratic means to ensure, the other side can't take away rights, they deem uncrossable. Be it abortions, net neutrality, unrestricted access to guns, cars, alcohol or what ever come's to mind. We constantly see people's rights under siege, because the other group think's, those who exercise these rights, aren't really human and thus don't have rights... Untill this changes, stuff like this will be comming back to bite everybody. People must start respecting other people's rights, especially, if they disagree with them! Note, that I haven't mentioned either side of this mess, that is because they are both responsible for this.
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  2. Man... Looking at this as Czech citizen, after witnessing pardon at the end of prsidency of Václav Klaus... I can only say... "hm... First time?". Also, murder doesn't have to be necessarily state issue. Since federal jurisdiction requires for the item in question to be crossing state lines, something that would happen directly on the state line, would likely be federal jurisdiction, even if it were a murder... Another option might be, if such act happened on federal land. I really don't see, how issuing a pardon could be a crime, atl least not ordinarily. That right is defined and, as long as the person issuing the pardon doesn't have tied hands, which you really REALLY don't want him/her to have... Really, the only way, that could happen, is if the president pardoned a spy, whose identity were confirmed by the hostile government. Otherwise, there is doubt and I feel that allegation like this would have to go through strict scrutiny (or whatever is equivalent in the institution, which would have jurisdiction)
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